Bedloe meaning | Last name Bedloe origin

Surname is the variant form of the Bedlow. Beadlow, battle-mound; There is a place called Beadlow in Beds. A branch of this family appear to have removed to Holland, where Arms were granted to them by a Prince of Orange.

Among the earliest Dutch settlers of New York was Isaac Bedloo, of Amsterdam, father of the first white child born in what is now the city of New York, and ancestor of Henry Bedlow, Esq., of Newport, R.I. Godfrey Bidloo, Physician to King William III and Isaac Bedloo, above named, were of the same family.

Surname Bedloe is a variant form of Beddoe. Perhaps a modification of Bede.